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Joy is like restless day; but peace divine like quiet night; Lead me, O Lord, till perfect Day shall shine through Peace to Light.

Joy is like restless day; but peace divine like quiet night; Lead me, O Lord, till perfect Day shall shine through Peace to Light.


Adelaide Anne Procter  Adelaide Anne Procter
Tags: Life  Road  Ask  Lord  May  Pleasant 

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Adelaide Anne Procter (30 October 1825 – 2 February 1864) was an English poet and philanthropist. She worked prominently on behalf of unemployed women and the homeless, and was actively involved with feminist groups and journals. Procter never married. She became unhealthy, possibly due to her charity work, and died of tuberculosis at the age of 38.

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The men are much alarmed by certain speculations about women; and well they may be, for when the horse and ass begin to think and argue, adieu to riding and driving.

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Dreams grow holy put in action.

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We always may be what we might have been.

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No star is ever lost we once have seen, we always may be what we might have been.

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Seated one day at the organ, I was weary and ill at ease, and my fingers wandered idly over the noisy keys. It seemed the harmonious echo from our discordant life.

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 Tags: Life Day Over One Day Keys Weary
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Joy is like restless day; but peace divine like quiet night; Lead me, O Lord, till perfect Day shall shine through Peace to Light.

    Adelaide Anne Procter  Adelaide Anne Procter   
 Tags: Peace Light Day Shine Joy Night
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I do not ask, O Lord, that life may be a pleasant road.

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